Dead Man Blues: An Evening with S.D. House
Schedule
Tue, 21 Oct, 2025 at 06:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
319 Wapping St, Frankfort, KY, United States, Kentucky 40601 | Frankfort, KY
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Join Silas House as he reads from and discusses Dead Man Blues, his debut mystery novel written under the pseudonym of S.D House. A book signing will follow, with copies available for purchase from Poor Richard's Books.Silas House is the New York Times bestselling author of seven novels, a book of creative nonfiction, and four plays. His first picture book will be published in 2025. His latest novel, Lark Ascending, was a USA Today and indie bestseller, a Booklist Editor’s Choice, and is winner of the Southern Book Prize and the Nautilus Award. In 2025 he releases two books: All These Ghosts, a poetry collection, and Dead Man Blues. He served as the Kentucky Poet Laureate for 2023-2025.
House is a former commentator for NPR's "All Things Considered". His writing has appeared recently in The Washington Post, Time, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Advocate, Garden and Gun, and many other of the nation’s leading publications.
House was a 2024 finalist for the Grammy Award for writing and producing the music video for Tyler Childers’ “In Your Love”, and is the winner of an EB White Honor Award, the Appalachian Book of the Year, the Storylines Prize from the New York Public Library/NAV Foundation, two Nautilus Awards, and many other honors, including an invitation to read at the Library of Congress and being longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and shortlisted for the Willie Morris Award. In 2022 he was given the Duggins Prize, the largest award in the nation for an LGBTQ writer. In 2024 he served as a fiction judge for the National Book Awards.
House has been active in the fight for environmental justice and is one of the South’s most visible LGBT people and activists. In 2021 he was named The Appalachian of the Year in a nationwide poll for his writing and for his work on environmental and LGBT issues in the region.
As a music journalist House has worked with artists such as Kacey Musgraves, Tyler Childers, Kris Kristofferson, Lucinda Williams, Jason Isbell, Lee Ann Womack, and many others. He is an executive producer and one of the subjects of the award-winning 2018 film Hillbilly, which was purchased by Hulu.
House serves on the fiction faculty at the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Creative Writing and as the National Endowment for the Humanities Chair at Berea College. He is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers and is the recipient of four honorary doctorates. House is a native of Southeastern Kentucky and currently lives in Lexington, Kentucky.
Please register at https://www.pspl.org/event/dead-man-blues. For more information, contact Diane Dehoney at (502) 352-2665 x100 or [email protected].
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